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To: Kevin O'Connor <kevin@koconnor.net>
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Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 04:55:44PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
>   
>> Blue Swirl wrote:
>>     
>>> True, but realistic probing for memory could take some time if there
>>> is a huge amount of it.
>>>       
>> No reason for that.  A binary search with a cap of 1TB and a granularity  
>> of 1MB requires only 20 probes.
>>     
>
> Real x86 machines detect the available memory chips via the smbus and
> then program the memory controller.  The initialization code must do
> this work without accessing any memory.  The coreboot project
> (coreboot.org) has more info if you're interested.
>   

Yeah, last time I did memory detection was before this existed.  So I 
guess we are better off with a qemu-specific hack.

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